2 Kings 17:12

Young's Literal Translation

and serve the idols, of which Jehovah said to them, `Ye do not do this thing;'

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They served idols, although the Lord had told them, “You must not do this.”

Hebrew Names Version
and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

King James Version
For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

English Standard Version
and they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, "You shall not do this."

New Century Version
They served idols when the Lord had said, "You must not do this."

New English Translation
They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the Lord 's command.

Amplified Bible
And they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

New American Standard Bible
They served idols, concerning which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

World English Bible
and they served idols, whereof Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And serued idoles: whereof the Lorde had sayd vnto them, Ye shal do no such thing,

Legacy Standard Bible
And they served idols, concerning which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

Berean Standard Bible
They served idols, although the LORD had told them, "You shall not do this thing."

Contemporary English Version
Even though the Lord had commanded the Israelites not to worship idols, they did it anyway.

Complete Jewish Bible
moreover, they served idols, something Adonai had expressly told them not to do.

Darby Translation
and they served idols, as to which Jehovah had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Easy-to-Read Version
They served idols, and the Lord had said to them, "You must not do this."

George Lamsa Translation
For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

Good News Translation
and disobeyed the Lord 's command not to worship idols.

Lexham English Bible
They served idols which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing!"

Literal Translation
and served the idols, of which Jehovah had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& serued the Idols, wherof the LORDE sayde vnto them: Ye shal not do soch a thynge.

American Standard Version
and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Bible in Basic English
And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they serued most vile idols, wherof the Lorde had sayd vnto them: Ye shall do no such thing.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: 'Ye shall not do this thing';

King James Version (1611)
For they serued idoles, whereof the Lord had said vnto them, Yee shall not doe this thing.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they served the idols, of which the Lord said to them, Ye shall not do this thing against the Lord.

English Revised Version
and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and worschipiden vnclenesses, of whiche the Lord comaundide to hem, that thei schulden not do this word.

Update Bible Version
and they served idols, whereof Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

Webster's Bible Translation
For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.

New King James Version
for they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

New Living Translation
Yes, they worshiped idols, despite the Lord 's specific and repeated warnings.

New Life Bible
They worshiped false gods, about which the Lord had told them, "You must not do this."

New Revised Standard
they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, "You shall not do this."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and they served the manufactured gods, as to which Yahweh had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they worshipped abominations, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do this thing.

Revised Standard Version
and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They served idols, concerning which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

Contextual Overview

⁷ And it cometh to pass, because the sons of Israel have sinned against Jehovah their God -- who bringeth them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt -- and fear other gods, ⁸ and walk in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they made; ⁹ and the sons of Israel do covertly things that [are] not right against Jehovah their God, and build for them high places in all their cities, from a tower of the watchers unto the fenced city, ¹⁰ and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree, ¹¹ and make perfume there in all high places, like the nations that Jehovah removed from their presence, and do evil things to provoke Jehovah, ¹² and serve the idols, of which Jehovah said to them, `Ye do not do this thing;' <sup>13</sup> And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, `Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;' ¹⁴ and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God, ¹⁵ and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after the nations that are round about them, of whom Jehovah commanded them not to do like them; ¹⁶ And they forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten image -- two calves, and make a shrine, and bow themselves to all the host of the heavens, and serve Baal,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whereof: Exodus 20:3-5, Exodus 34:14, Leviticus 26:1, Deuteronomy 4:19, Deuteronomy 5:7-9

Ye shall not: Deuteronomy 4:15-19, Deuteronomy 4:23-25, Deuteronomy 12:4

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:15 - concerning whom 2 Kings 17:40 - but they did

Cross-References

Genesis 17:22
and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:23
And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money -- every male among the men of Abraham's house -- and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.

Genesis 21:4
and Abraham circumciseth Isaac his son, [being] a son of eight days, as God hath commanded him.

Leviticus 12:3
and in the eighth day is the flesh of his foreskin circumcised;

Luke 1:59
And it came to pass, on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling him by the name of his father, Zacharias,

Luke 2:21
And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, then was his name called Jesus, having been so called by the messenger before his being conceived in the womb.

Acts 7:8
`And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac [begat] Jacob, and Jacob -- the twelve patriarchs;

Romans 2:28
For he is not a Jew who is [so] outwardly, neither [is] circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

Philippians 3:5
circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they served idols,.... Baalim, as the Targum; dunghill gods, as the word signifies, as they are often called in Scripture; and Sterculius was one of the names of Saturn, an Heathen deity, which he had, as is supposed, by his finding out the method of making land fruitful with dung i:

whereof the Lord said unto them, ye shall not do this thing; see

Exodus 20:3.

i Vid. Macrob. l. 1. c. 7. Lactant. de fals. Relig. l. 1. c. 20.